Small crowd of Trump supporters outside the Pennsylvania convention Centre, where PA’s remaining votes are being counted. Rudy Giuliani and team on the way here.
Giuliani and the gang have now cancelled their press conference outside the convention centre. Crowd mostly disbanded. Benny Hill theme plays.
The gang have now rearranged their press conference at the airport after unilaterally declaring victory before the ballots have been counted. Heading there now.
Rudy Giuliani and the gang holding press conference now.

“This kind of balloting has always been the most prone to fraud. We were supposed to be allowed by law to observe the counting of the ballots.”
Giuliani said their team could not properly observe the counting of ballots. That is the only direct accusation made so far. Rest is insinuation.
“We never got a chance to look at a single one of them” he says of mail-in ballots. “This is a concerted effort of the crooks that run the Democratic Party.” No evidence forthcoming.
“We’re gonna win this election. We’ve actually won it,” says Giuliani. Says it was a “dastardly and crooked scheme.”
One journalist just burst out laughing as Corey Lewandowski declared Pennsylvania “Trump country” and mentioned something about a video.
That’s a wrap. No questions and the gang didn’t present any real evidence of any wrongdoing. Central allegation seems to be they were blocked from viewing ballot count for a period.
Here’s a bonus clip of @lindseyhilsum asking Rudy Giuliani if he was being a sore loser.

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4 Nov
Pennsylvania @GovernorTomWolf talking now: "The promise of democracy is that every vote counts. That has been the promise of democracy since 1787. They will be counted accurately and fully.”
"Delay is a sign that the system is working. There are 3 million mail-in ballots that are being counted. We may not know the results even today. The most important thing is that we have accurate results."
"Make no mistake: our democracy is being tested in this election. This is a stress test of the ideals on which this country was founded. The basic rule of one person, one vote, still carries."
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4 Nov
Back in September, I laid out in this piece how Donald Trump's attacks on mail-in ballots were a precursor to him trying to stop them from being counted. This is what we're seeing today.
independent.co.uk/news/world/ame…
This whole mess could have been avoided if Republicans in Pennsylvania allowed mail-in ballots to be processed before election day. They refused because mail-in ballots were disproportionately used by Democrats, and the uncertainty benefited them.
We did a podcast on this slow-motion car crash last week btw.
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3 Nov
CNN: What we are about to tell you means nothing. We have barely any results. Please do not jump to conclusions.

Also CNN: Listen to me talk about that same thing for ten minutes.
CNN is blasting meaningless graphics and maps into people’s faces like so many custard pies.
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3 Nov
Sharing some election dispatches ICYMI. Most were an attempt to explain shifts in the polls since 2016 (i.e. not repeatedly asking Trump's supporters why they still loved him). Others looked at election issues/suppression.

First up Kenosha, Wisconsin: independent.co.uk/news/world/ame…
Johnstown, Pennsylvania:

independent.co.uk/news/world/ame…
The Trump admin's attacks on the postal service:

independent.co.uk/news/world/ame…
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21 Aug
Exclusive: Carter Centre to launch first-ever US election initiative, citing "erosion" of democracy in the country.

The organisation, founded by Carter, monitors elections in hotspots around the world. This is the first time it has worked in the US.

independent.co.uk/news/world/ame…
This is kind of a big deal. It comes just days after Barack Obama issued a stark warning on the threat the Trump administration poses to democracy in the US.

Two former presidents now raising the alarm just a few months away from the election.
In the past, it has prioritised countries where there is “a significant potential for an important change in the quality of democracy,” or where democracy is “under severe threat”.

But the Cater Centre now believes "the state of democracy in the US has been eroding.”
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25 May
Will Trump destroy opposition research or will it destroy him? I spoke to folks in the business of digging up dirt about how opposition research has changed in the age of Trump.
independent.co.uk/independentpre…
This, from a researcher who worked on Obama, Clinton and Sanders' campaigns, sums it up well:
And this, from Alan Huffman — who wrote the book on opposition research — on how November is a test for the truth and the usefulness of this kind of work:
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